9-letter words containing o, e, n, u
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subpotent — not at full strength
- subregion — a division or subdivision of a region, especially a division of a zoogeographical region.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- suetonius — (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus) a.d. 75–150, Roman historian.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- summonsed — an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned.
- summonses — an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned.
- sunbonnet — a bonnet with a large brim shading the face and sometimes a piece projecting over the neck, worn by women and children.
- sundowner — Chiefly British. an alcoholic drink taken after completing the day's work, usually at sundown.
- sunflower — any of various composite plants of the genus Helianthus, as H. annuus, having showy, yellow-rayed flower heads often 12 inches (30 cm) wide, and edible seeds that yield an oil with a wide variety of uses: the state flower of Kansas.
- sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
- superlong — extremely long
- supernova — the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star's luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star's mass is blown away at very high velocity, sometimes leaving behind an extremely dense core.
- surf zone — the area offshore where waves break, between the outermost breaker and the limit of wave uprush; the zone within which waves approaching the coastline start breaking, usually in water depths of 16 to 32 feet (5 to 10 meters).
- surf-zone — the area offshore where waves break, between the outermost breaker and the limit of wave uprush; the zone within which waves approaching the coastline start breaking, usually in water depths of 16 to 32 feet (5 to 10 meters).
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- surrejoin — to reply to a legal rejoinder
- suspensor — a suspensory ligament, bandage, etc.
- synagogue — a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.
- synecious — synoicous.
- telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
- tellurion — an apparatus for showing the manner in which the diurnal rotation and annual revolution of the earth and the obliquity of its axis produce the alternation of day and night and the changes of the seasons.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tendinous — of the nature of or resembling a tendon.
- tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- tentorium — Anatomy. an extension of one of the membranes covering the cerebrum which, with the transverse fissure, separates the cerebrum from the cerebellum.
- tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- teutonism — the character, spirit, or culture of the Teutons, especially the Germans.
- teutonize — to make or become German or Germanic; Germanize
- the sound — a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand (Denmark), linking the Kattegat with the Baltic: busy shipping lane; spanned by a bridge in 2000. Length of the strait: 113 km (70 miles). Narrowest point: 5 km (3 miles)
- the union — the United States of America, specif. when regarded as a federal union
- the yukon — a territory of NW Canada, on the Beaufort Sea, between the Northwest Territories and Alaska: arctic and mountainous, reaching 5959 m (19 550 ft) at Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak; mineral resources. Capital: Whitehorse. Pop: 33 897 (2011). Area: 536 327 sq km (207 076 sq miles)
- thenabout — around then or around that time
- thereunto — to that place, thing, etc.
- thereupon — immediately following that.
- thoughten — having a particular kind of thought or opinion
- timenoguy — a taut rope on a ship used to prevent the tangling of lines and riggings
- toluidine — any of three isomeric amines having the formula C 7 H 9 N, derived from toluene: used in the dye and drug industries.
- tonguelet — a small tongue
- tormentum — an ancient Roman catapult- like war weapon
- totaquine — a mixture of quinine and other alkaloids derived from cinchona bark, used as a substitute for quinine in treating malaria
- touchline — any of the outer lines bordering the playing field.
- toughener — something that toughens
- toughness — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- tournedos — small slices of fillet of beef, round and thick, served with a variety of sauces and garnished.
- townhouse — a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same person.
- true-born — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
- truncheon — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
- tubesnout — a slender, marine fish, Aulorhynchus flavidus, inhabiting coastal waters from southern California to Alaska, having a long, tubelike snout.